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Piracy Toolbox: 30+ Ways to Support or Fight Internet Piracy

It's time to quit Talking Like a Pirate and start acting like one. Or against one, depending on which side you fall on. While we'd never advocate copyright infringement, there's no doubt that plenty of modern web services are being used to access content without permission. Whether you want to support your local pirate or your local crime fighter, here are more than 30 resources for the piracy wars.

Support Your Local Pirate

BitTorrent – Large p2p file sharing network. You can download the latest movies, tv shows, music and pc games.

TorrentSpy – With over 1 million torrents currently in their index you can find everything from adult movies to music and applications available for download.

TorrentReactor.net – This is a continually updating directory of popular torrents on the web. They do not actually have files for download on their site, all links have been aggregated.

ShareTV.org – A popular torrent site dedicated to the sharing of television shows among users in their community.

Softwarelist.us – A listing of trial software with their crack keys in order to make them full versions.

IsoHunt – BitTorrent search engine. You can find all of the latest and most popular torrents floating around the web.

TorrentBox.com – This is a BitTorrent tracking site and a peer to peer file sharing community. They also have a forum and news for the torrent community.

Utorrent – A popular bittorrent downloading client. This program allows you to schedule downloads, allocate bandwidth and more.

Torrentz – Bittorrent search engine for finding torrents from millions of sites across the web. You can also browse with their tag cloud.

TorrentMatrix – Browse and find any kind of torrents you can imagine, you will find movies, music, anime, tv shows and more.

Demonoid.com – Check out the latest torrents, hang out in the forums or upload your favorite torrent.

Snarf-it – A free torrent search engine for finding just about anything you want.

ScrapeTorrent – A torrent meta-search that will pull results from the top torrent sites into one page for easy discovery.

MiniNova – A popular torrent search engine and directory. Does allow you to anonymously upload your favorite torrents.

BtJunkie – Large bittorrent search engine with over 600,000 active torrents. They offer free torrent uploads, Torrent Mail to keep you updated on the latest additions and more.

Fenopy – Torrent directory that allows you to browse with their easy to use tag clouds, upload your favorite torrents and share with your friends.

Torrent-Damage.net – This is a private torrent tracker so you must first register before gaining access to their site.

Toorgle – Built to mimic the Google search engine, this torrent search engine displays results from over 200 torrent sites.

Fulldls.com – Large torrent directory. Post comments and report problems on torrents, customize how their homepage looks to you and more.

The Pirate Bay – Claims to be the world's largest open bittorrent tracker. They allow anyone to download the latest torrent files.

Make a Stand Against Piracy

Business Software Alliance – An organization devoted to stopping or controlling the piracy issues with commercial software and hardware. They operate over 65 hotlines as well as their website allowing people to report incidents of piracy.

Software Passport – If you are in the business of creating software, this program helps secure your product to protect it from pirates. There are two versions available and prices start at $299 dollars.

CipherPack – Program designed to encrypt and protect your programs from pirates by stopping them from cracking your sources.

Pace Anti-Piracy – A provider of anti-piracy products for the software industry. They have several products to choose from, depending on your needs as a developer.

FBI Cyber Crimes – Get educated on the the fight against piracy by the Federal Government. Find out what is in the works for combating Internet pirates, and report Internet crime.

Microsoft – Interested in Microsoft's take on piracy? You can find it here, learn more about protecting yourself from pirated products and take a look at what Microsoft is doing to stop it.

Internet Crimes Group – This company is devoted to providing corporations with the knowledge to identify and act against pirates in their industries.

SafeNet – A provider of anti-piracy solutions for your software. Not only will their program help to protect against pirates, but should your product be hacked this will also help to locate and identify the problem so you can stop it before it is distributed.

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